One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, spoke to the BBC after Ruben had admitted 17 of the offences he was jailed for.<\/p>\n
She met Ruben when she was a child, when he would come to their school to sing religious hymns in assembly and ran a church club in Clifton in Nottingham.<\/p>\n
“I always thought he was a nice man,” she said.<\/p>\n
While staying at Stathern Lodge, she said she would never see him at nighttime as he would be looking after the boys’ side.<\/p>\n
She said: “We didn’t have to pay a penny, so even my mum at the time thought it was a bit dodgy, but I kept begging her because all my friends were going.”<\/p>\n
The woman also recalled playing a game where a person would eat chocolate blindfolded.<\/p>\n
“There wasn’t really any harm done by it back then anyway,” she said. <\/p>\n
“You don’t look for things like that and I’ve never felt anything by it with his sweets and his chocolate games.”<\/p>\n
However, after hearing of the crimes Ruben had admitted to, she described him as “absolutely vile”, adding: “I can’t believe I’ve been let around him.”<\/p>\n
“We never suspected a thing with him at all. But I don’t know, the boys might have to say something different, but I don’t know. I can’t speak on behalf of them,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, spoke to the BBC after Ruben had admitted 17 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-412592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}